Alex Drude the Sports Dude

06/12/2026

Check out my new Free Friday post! The San Francisco Giants Bryce Eldridge and Fred Merkle, connected via photograph. Plus the most indignant custom pocket watch engraving that you have ever heard of. It’s all here! Click to read, subscribe for free, and share...

Bryce Eldridge and Fred Merkle, connected in a positive way (for Bryce, anyway)

06/02/2026

Check out my new Free Tuesday post! Win a lot, lose by lot. The San Francisco Giants are doing it in historical fashion, and have transferred their bad mojo to Caitlin Clark. With appearances by Jackie Robinson, John Montgomery Ward, and the only man to hit 50 homers and strike out fewer than 50 times in a season… (click to read and subscribe for free!)

The Aura of the 2026 San Francisco Giants affects Caitlin Clark, John Montgomery Ward, Jackie Robinson, and Johnny Mize...

06/01/2026

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05/29/2026

Check out my new Free Friday post! I should have known before going to the park that the San Francisco Giants would have a major baserunning blunder on May 27th. How do Caitlin Clark, Charlotte restaurants, Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Golden Gate Bridge connect to that? Well, you’ll just have to read it for yourself…

The Giants no-good Wednesday was preordained...

05/26/2026

Check out my new Free Tuesday post! A very short history of Memorial Day, with sidebars about Victor Wembanyama and his historical precedent and various days at the Indy 500… (it would really help out if you clicked on the link and subscribed, it's free and you will probably learn something interesting in the process...)

Wemby and Wilt and various baseball complaints

05/22/2026

Check out my new Free Friday post! How having Oreos for breakfast connects to the very bad SF Giants, Paul McCartney and SNL, the “single drummer era” and Stephen Colbert’s last show on CBS… (click to read and subscribe for free)

The Giants, Oreos for breakfast, the "single drummer era" and Stephen Colbert

05/15/2026

Check out my new Free Friday post! The most interesting thing I learned this week was Steve Kerr’s favorite sandwich. The second is how Taffy Wright got his first name. The third is what happened today in 1941 that you’ve heard of but don’t know how it started… (click to read, and subscribe, and share!)

https://open.substack.com/pub/alexdrude/p/sandwiches-and-streaks-and-steaks?r=18bra&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

05/12/2026

Check out my new Free Monday post! The same question can get you two very different franchise-altering answers. In one case, they chose to not end it yet. In another, they did. Fortunes changed in the Bay this weekend… (click to read, and subscribe, and share!)

"Not yet" or "Right now," the answer depends on what could come next